Course Description

In a dynamic HR professionals have to stop 'doing' and start 'delivering'. Therefore, HR has to transform itself into a credible business partner deserving a seat at the decision-making table. The door is wide open for human resources to become the business partner it always wanted to be rather than remaining just another service function.

Now more than ever, HR professionals need new skills and a whole new set of competencies: technical, behavioral and emotional, in order to be able to deliver strategic and tangible results. Participants to this course will go through the various HR functions, the key results that HR has to deliver, the key performance indicators for measuring HR performance, and the various competencies necessary for the success of HR as a business partner.

In the end, this intensive training course will enable you to transform yourself and your HR department into a business partner capable of delivering results and adding value to your organization.

Course Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:

  • Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the nature of HR as a managerial function
  • List all HR functions and responsibilities and identify their contributions to organizational success
  • Play the four new roles that make HR a credible business partner in a modern organization
  • Create an HR strategy that is aligned with the overall organizational strategy
  • Measure the contribution of HR to the bottom line in both profit and nonprofit organizations
  • Assess the effectiveness of the human resources function through the use of 'SMART' Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and indices
  • Demonstrate how a competency framework can increase the effectiveness of the HR function
  • List the core competencies for an HR professional.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for Human resources managers, business partners, team leaders, and specialists.

Course Agenda

5 Days

Registration, Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Human management: An overview

  • Definition and objectives of modern HR management
  • HR management now and then
  • The main functions in HR management
  •                    √    Organization

                       √    Resourcing

                       √    Climate and culture

                       √    Training and development

                       √    Performance management

                       √    Total compensation management systems

                       √    Personnel administration

  • Competency based HR management: An overview

HR business partner

  • Four new roles to play

                       √    Management of strategic HR

                       √    Management of firm infrastructure

                       √    Management of employee contribution

                       √    Management of transformation and change

                       √    Basic HR competencies required to play the four roles

  • HR business partner and emotional intelligence

                       √    The fundamental emotional intelligence framework

                       √    The emotionally intelligent HR business partner

Job analysis, description and evaluation

  • The pervasiveness of the job description
  • Four approaches for conducting job analysis
  • Job Key Result Areas (KRAs)
  • Writing job descriptions using the job key result areas approach
  • Characteristics of effective job descriptions
  • Guaranteeing 'internal consistency' through job evaluation

Fundamentals of strategic HR management

  • Analysis of the environment
  • From SWOT analysis to vision and mission statements
  • The link between strategy and performance
  • Organizational vs. HR key result areas
  • Measuring HR KRAs through SMART Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Turning key performance indicators into SMART objectives
  • The balanced scorecard: an overview

Competency based HR management

  • Competency definition
  • Types of competencies
  • The different competency components
  • Competency based recruitment and selection
  • Competency based training and development
  • Competency based performance management
  • Benefits of a competency-based HR

Measuring HR Performance

  • The predominance of business results over HR results
  • Five steps of analytics
  • Measuring recruitment and selection
  • Measuring compensation and benefits
  • Measuring training and development
  • Measuring performance management
  • Designing the HR balanced scorecard

Post-Test

End of the Course

    Assessment Methodology

    All courses conducted by EdTech will begin with a Pre-evaluation and end with a Post-evaluation. The instructor will evaluate the knowledge and skills of the participants according to the feedback given by participants. This will help to recognize the benefits and the level of knowledge gained by participants through the course.

    Training Methodology

    Facilitated by a highly qualified specialist, who has extensive knowledge and experience; this program will be conducted using extensively interactive methods, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the program material to real-life work situations in order to stimulate group discussions and improve the efficiency of the subject coverage.

    Percentages of the total course hour classification are:

    • ​40% Theoretical lectures, Concepts and approach
    • 20% Motivation to develop individual skill and Techniques
    • 20% Case Studies and Practical Exercises
    • 20% Topic General Discussions and interaction

    Course Manual

    Participants will be provided with comprehensive presentation material as reference manual. This presentation material is a compilation of core valuable information, references, presentation methods and inspiring reading which will be used as a part of the material guide.

    Course Certificate

    At the completion of the course, all participants who successfully accomplished the required contact hours will receive an EdTech Training Participation Certificate as a testimony to their commitment to professional development and further education.

    Why Edtech ?

    • Industry Experienced; Internationally Qualified Trainers
    • Hands-on Practical Sessions & Assignments
    • Intensive Study materials
    • Flexible Schedules
    • Realistic training methodology
    • High-Quality Training in Affordable Course Fees
    • Achievement Certificate, as approved by the Ministry of Education (Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education Training - ACTVET), HABC, AWS, IAOSHE, SHRM, etc.